complete , someMacalister/1949, 45: `the surface of the stone is pocked at the beginning of the second line of writing, evidently to remove a first cutting of the cross (still traceable), which had been set in a place afterwards found inconvenient'.

CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial and the initial OR has a contraction mark; the bows of the Ds and the B are heart-shaped, while the second O is verging on lozenge-shaped and the ascenders of the B and L have wedge-shaped finials.

Macalister/1949, 45, argues that the pocked area is the result of a cross being removed from the stone.